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Posts tagged with 'brain' and 'sports' at MetaFilter.Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:29:19 -0800Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:29:19 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss6076 of 79 Deceased NFL Players Found to Have Brain Diseasehttp://www.metafilter.com/143246/76%2Dof%2D79%2DDeceased%2DNFL%2DPlayers%2DFound%2Dto%2DHave%2DBrain%2DDisease
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/concussion-watch/76-of-79-deceased-nfl-players-found-to-have-brain-disease/">76 of 79 Deceased NFL Players Found to Have Brain Disease</a> <blockquote>
As the NFL nears an end to its long-running legal battle over concussions, new data from the nation's largest brain bank focused on traumatic brain injury has found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in 76 of the 79 former players it's examined.
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To be sure, players represented in the data represent a skewed population. CTE can only be definitively identified posthumously, and many of the players who have donated their brains for research suspected that they may have had the disease while still alive. For example, former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson committed suicide in 2011 by shooting himself in the chest, reportedly to preserve his brain for examination.
Nonetheless, Dr. Ann McKee, the director of the brain bank, believes the findings suggest a clear link between football and traumatic brain injury.
"Obviously this high percentage of living individuals is not suffering from CTE," said McKee, a neuropathologist who directs the brain bank as part of a collaboration between the VA and Boston University's CTE Center. But "playing football, and the higher the level you play football and the longer you play football, the higher your risk."
An NFL spokesman did not respond to several requests for comment.
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More coverage from <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/10/80-percent-former-football-players-traumatic-brain-injury">Mother Jones</a> and <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6876131/majority-of-nfl-player-brains-in-study-had-cte">The Verge</a>
(NFL and CTE previously on MetaFilter: <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/131242/League-of-Denial-The-NFL-Concussions-and-the-Battle-for-Truth">1</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/112735/Does-Football-have-a-future-Or-perhaps-should-Football-have-a-future">2</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/105315/Another-Gladiator-Gone">3</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/93258/Cause-Its-Known-to-Give-a-Brother-Brain-Damage">4</a>, <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/87632/Extra-Extra-Football-causes-brain-damage">5</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143246Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:29:19 -0800tonycpsuLeague of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truthhttp://www.metafilter.com/131242/League%2Dof%2DDenial%2DThe%2DNFL%2DConcussions%2Dand%2Dthe%2DBattle%2Dfor%2DTruth
The <em>New York Times</em> is reporting that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/sports/football/nfl-pressure-said-to-prompt-espn-to-quit-film-project.html">pressure from the NFL led ESPN to pull out of an investigative project with FRONTLINE regarding head injuries in American Football</a>. The two-part <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/">investigative report</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0770437540/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">book</a> will reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/espn-ends-frontline-concussion-collaboration-612824"> ESPN has a $15.2 Billion deal with the NFL.</a> (Football concussions previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/117687/The-man-in-your-picture-is-almost-unrecognizable">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/97072/Mama-Dont-Let-Your-Boys-Grow-Up-To-Play-Football">2</a>, and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/93258/Cause-Its-Known-to-Give-a-Brother-Brain-Damage">3</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131242Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:40:45 -0800Public PolicyDoes Football have a future? Or, perhaps, should Football have a future?http://www.metafilter.com/112735/Does%2DFootball%2Dhave%2Da%2Dfuture%2DOr%2Dperhaps%2Dshould%2DFootball%2Dhave%2Da%2Dfuture
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/31/110131fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=all">Does Football have a Future?</a>: Football players are anywhere from five to nineteen times more likely than a member of the general population to suffer from a dementia-like illness. This is likely a result of <a href="http://www.bu.edu/cste/about/what-is-cte/">Chronic Traumatic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy">Encephalopathy</a> (<a href="http://www.brainline.org/images/uploads/orig/2010/Ann-McKee-slide_32.jpg">picture</a>), neurodegeneration caused by receiving multiple concussions or even subconcussions that are not detectable around time of impact. CTE has been linked to <a href="http://www.bu.edu/cste/files/2011/11/Gavett-et-al-CTE-Current-Opinions-in-Neurology-2011.pdf">other mood and behavior changes, including suicidal depression (a great review of the medical literature generally),</a> and has been found in football players as young as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/sports/14football.html">21</a>. And, of course, there is the sometimes debilitating physical disability (either acutely or later in life) from playing a hard-contact sport. The NFL has a long history of adjusting safety standards in bits and pieces (e.g., <a href="http://nflhealthandsafety.com/commitment/evolution/">legalization of the forward pass</a>) to meet public concern over potential injury and disability from playing the sport, though still to some degree publicly <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98668764">denies a connection between football and brain damage</a>. New Yorker writer <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/ben_mcgrath/search?contributorName=ben%20mcgrath">Ben McGrath</a> talks to football players (past and present), their families (often left behind by untimely death or dementia-twilight), franchise heads, and doctors to explore this history, the crushing legacy of sports injuries, and the question of whether it is possible to reform the rules to minimize the risk of concussion and thus the risk of CTE (if any such risk is acceptable). Would it still be football if such changes were to tone down the violence? (<a href="http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-a-wussed-out-nfl-wont-suck/">Yes,</a> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/18/nfl-playoffs-buzz-bissinger-on-why-football-needs-violence.html">No [from iconoclast Buzz Bissinger]</a>) And, uncomfortably: is the sport of football unethical for its players, even if entered into on their own volition? (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell">previously in the New Yorker</a>; previously on MetaFilter <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/105315/Another-Gladiator-Gone">1,</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95292/Lou-Gehrig-may-not-have-had-Lou-Gehrigs-Disease">2,</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/85791/The-boykilling-manmutilating-moneymaking-educationprostituting-gladiatorial-sport">3</a>) * Of course, CTE is not in the slightest exclusive to football players, as highlighted recently by a major piece in the NYT on the life and death (by suicide) of a <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110166/The-physical-toll-of-being-a-goon">young NHL hockey enforcer.</a>
* Much of the attention on CTE is due to the intensive investigative journalism of NYT reporter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schwarz">Alan Schwarz,</a> who more-or-less shifted to "sports concussions" as his newspaper beat.
* <a href="http://theconcussionblog.com/">The Concussion Blog referenced in the article,</a> regularly covering not just concussions but a wide range of sports-injury topics. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112735Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:52:15 -0800KeterThe "boy-killing, man-mutilating, money-making, education-prostituting, gladiatorial sport."http://www.metafilter.com/85791/The%2Dboykilling%2Dmanmutilating%2Dmoneymaking%2Deducationprostituting%2Dgladiatorial%2Dsport
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all">Does american football unavoidably lead to brain damage over time?</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/sports/football/15concussions.html&OQ=_rQ3D2Q26scpQ3D1Q26sqQ3DsilenceQ2520concussionsQ26stQ3Dcse&OP=1c6713b2Q2FWQ23YQ2AWVdQ20mcddIJWJgg-WgCWQ2BMWmRdcImWQ3EddIQ2AQ60eeWQ2BMQ20dFQ20Q3DmmjdFmZDIBe">Does a culture favoring perseverance at the expense of well being begin in high school?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85791Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:55:54 -0800phrontistThis post is dressed in bluehttp://www.metafilter.com/46253/This%2Dpost%2Dis%2Ddressed%2Din%2Dblue
To invoke Fast and the Furious: <a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20051027/01">It's not how you play the game that matters, it's the color of your uniform</a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.46253Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:10:16 -0800daksyaGargantuan Man Has Tumorhttp://www.metafilter.com/45113/Gargantuan%2DMan%2DHas%2DTumor
He's got <a href="http://www.murphyinthemorning.com/jpg/josie_mingming.jpg">ginormous size,</a> <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/id/3552360_36_1.jpg">monstrous handles,</a> and a <a href="http://img5.picsplace.to/img5/2/sunmingming.gif">floor-dunk.</a> He also has a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20050911/bs_prweb/prweb283457_1">tumor.</a> Fortunately for basketball fans, the kindness of strangers is what's saving <a href="http://www.savesunmingming.com">Sun Ming Ming.</a> (not related to
<a href="http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Houston_Rockets_Sign_Yao_Ming_-150162-822.html?rss=true">the rich Ming</a>). tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45113Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:42:22 -0800HiveMind